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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 19:35:10 +0100 (CET)
From: Marcos Lorenzo <marcos AT it DOT uc3m DOT es>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: mkfifo doesn't work??
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[19:06:06] marcos AT MOZART~ mkfifo --version
mkfifo (fileutils) 4.1
Escrito por David MacKenzie.

Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Esto es software libre; vea el código fuente para las condiciones de
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FIN DETERMINADO.
[19:06:11] marcos AT MOZART~ mkfifo -m 600 /tmp/.$$
mkfifo: cannot create fifo ``/tmp/.119'': Function not implemented

mkfifo version 4.1 doesn't work?

Do I need to update fileutils to get this function implemented?

I'm really surprised, why is there an executable mkfifo if it's not
implemented?


TIA,
m4c.



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